The British Knitting and Crochet Awards have now launched for 2019.

Every year these awards celebrate the the retailers, brands and products that makes knitting and crochet such a pleasure for all of us yarn addicts.

We hope that Marriner is a great place for all of our customers to get their yarn-fix; we love to see everything that you have made with our yarns. It’s down to wonderful customers like you that Marriner is able to grow and expand.

You can help us even further with this by nominating us for this year’s British Knitting and Crochet awards.

It only takes a few minutes and every nomination is entered into a prize draw to win a huge yarn bundle from Let’s Knit!

Click the banner below to submit yours.

We think that we would make a great fit in the Best Independent yarn brand, ​Best…

Good news – after getting friendly with our rams Baarney and Hercules in November, our ladies were scanned this week to find out how many baby lambs will be joining us in spring. Just like humans, ewes are scanned around the 10/12 week point to find out the number of lambs they carry.

The vet uses an ultrasound scanner to determine how many lambs each ewe is carrying to then mark the sheep’s back with a specific colour.

Watch our video below where Rhos explains how the coloured dots indicate how many lambs we can expect:

We have only five ewes that are not carrying any lambs, but they may still come to be mothers in the future. This means that in the spring we will have our whole field full of lambs. We have lots of ewes expecting…

Our ladies are now getting ready for winter and that also means they are getting ready to be mums. We will hopefully see the arrival of some gorgeous little lambs come March and April and our flock is currently being looked after in preparation to carry their little ones for a few months. One of the ways we prepare for this is to shear them.

A few weeks ago, all of our sheep went for a visit to the hairdresser and are now looking considerably less fluffy…

Fancy seeing your Christmas design featured on Marriner Yarns?

There is nothing like getting on with some Christmas crafting to get you in the festive spirit – we can imagine that you are all planning your autumn and winter projects already.

At Marriner Yarns, we love seeing everything that our customers make over the festive period (we know how talented you all are!), so we want to see as many of your own original patterns for small and simple Christmas themed projects as possible. Send us your patterns for quick and easy projects – anything from Christmas pom poms,…

Our Marriner flock is well and truly at home in their lush, green sloping field. They are more than happy spending their days roaming the small hills and munching their way through a considerable amount of grass.

Their fleece is getting thicker by the day and we can already tell that it’s going to be quite soft. They are due their very first haircut around this time, and we can’t wait to take you through the whole process from shearing, to scouring, roving, spinning and, finally, winding. With only a small flock we won’t see a huge amount of wool…